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rich: concerns about the safety of supreme court justices as protests outside the homes are not letting up. governors in virginia and maryland are calling garland to step up and enforce the books to makes illegal to influence judges. i'm rich edison in for eric sean. alicia: i'm alicia acuña in for arthel neville. the letter comes from supreme court top officials asking for more protections for high courts
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month lawyer after assassination attempt on justice kavanaugh the department of justice finally responded declining to enforce the laws. now a different federal official is writing to us with conflicting information. he's referencing a letter from supreme court marshal to governor hogan and youngkin to put an end of protest and activity outside of supreme court justices following decision to overturn decision to abortion to the states. a spokesperson for virginia governor glenn youngkin told fox news that the governor agrees with the marshal that the activity has become more threatening and has increased and he welcomes the request for local law enforcement to enforce the state laws but also, quote, the attorney general, the u.s. should do his job to enforce robust federal law and every resource including u.s. magsals should be involved while the
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judges continue to deny to live peacefully. he ended up calling authorities on himself and was taken into custody without harm. while the department of justice refused to stop protestors from demonstrating outside of justices homes, they have provided assistance. alicia, rich. alicia: turning to holiday travel, huge crowd, bad weather and staffing shortages are threatening to disrupt travel this weekend. the situation improved since airports saw long lines and frustrated passengers. airlines have been struggling to keep up with the surge and demand this summer and july 4th holiday will be a major test for the industry. charles watson at atlanta's heartfelt's jackson international airport. one of the busiest in the world. charles: there is good news that
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holiday travel is pre-pandemic levels. take a look at the counter. you can see folks checking in. they have been moving people in and out of lines but it is the lines and amount of people that we are seeing in the airports that's causing all types of big troubles for the airlines which have been forced or canceled, many are hoping and praying that they make it to their destination. >> we've been up to 24 hours. nobody really wants to be delayed any longer than that. charles: we have been taking a look at saturday's numbers, more than 1500 u.s. flights delayed and 650 canceled. the airline struggling to keep up with demand due in part to crippling shortages.
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including here in at atlanta the home of delta, the demand of the pilots higher pay after clocking record overtime this year and all of the issues running up to surge in holiday travels on saturday tsa screening well over 2.1 million passengers at airports across the country. that's 92% of total number of people screened pre-pandemic level on the same day and 2019 but this time around feels a whole lot more stressful for some. >> i do get stressed sometimes especially when the airport looks like this. it's pretty packed right now. >> as long as the flight isn't delayed or canceled, that's fine. charles: adding bit more chaos into the mix, glitch in american airline system allowed pilots to dropped thousands of flights from july into august. we reached out to american and they confirmed the glitch and said it has been fixed and many
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canceled flights have been restored. we got a statement from the pilots association rather and it says things are still not kosher so to speak. they say a lot of the flights were reinstated without the knowledge of pilots and some of those flights were added to pilots who originally had time off so good plate of drama to go for the holiday weekend, alicia. alicia: oh, man, what a mess. charles watson in atlanta, thanks, charles. texas governor greg abbott -- rich: texas governor greg abbott is calling on president biden to step up and secure the border after the supreme court said the biden administration can end the so-called remain in mexico policy. abbott is also blaming biden's border policies for the deaths of 53 migrants found inside in an abandoned truck in san antonio last week. senior correspondent claudey cowan has more, claudia. >> governor greg abbott has been
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fierce and vocal critic of the administration's border policies but these latest comments launch escalation between a war of words between him and the president. president abbott says the president has abandoned the border state by refusing to enforce immigration laws and he says that attracts cartels and smugglers who caused normallous human suffering and here is part of exclusive interview with griff jenkins from the border. >> it's never been worst, it's never been worst because the numbers are higher than they've ever been. the problems and challenges mounting on the other side of the border. first of all, we are not seeing the president lift a finger to do anything about it. we are an abandoned outpost out here and the president abandoned one of the states, many of the states, all the border state in the united states is reprehensible. >> abbott called 53 deaths a
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by-product of biden's border policy which says only encourages migrants to risk their lives to sneak into the country. this morning on abc this week the head of the department of homeland department argue that is the administration is warning people not to take the dangerous warning adding that congress must do more. >> these are remarkably distinct times and we have a multifaceted approach not only to work with our partner countries but to bring law enforcement to bear, to attack the smuggling organizations in an unprecedented way. ultimately, congress must pass legislation to once and for while fix our broken immigration system. >> mayorkas called the death of 53 deaths tragic but the checkpoints are working with over 400,000 vehicles and more than 10,000 migrants rescued this year and even so abbott is ordering state troopers to step
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up inspections to try to catch human smugglers, rich. rich: gunman killed two people and wounded 3 police officers before taking his own life. police in haltom city, outside of fort worth responded to calls of shots fired and got into the shootout with the suspect, the gunman was wearing, quote, tactical belt and armed with rifle and handgun, later found dead after shooting himself. the 3 officers and woman reported called are expected to recover. police are investigating what led up to the murderers. accused of killing procyclist. multiple outlets say caitlin armstrong arrived in houston yesterday after she was captured in costa rica. she reportedly used another person's passport to flee the country and spent 6 weeks on the run before officers caught her wednesday.
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reports say armstrong dyed and cut her hair. wilson spent the day with armstrong's boyfriend, he's facing federal charges for avoiding prosecution. alicia. alicia: rich, beach goers better be ware, increase in shark sightings has authorities on high alert. what you need to know before you hit the water this weekend. next. ♪ ♪ ♪
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alicia: americans are flocking to the beach this weekend and apparently so are the sharks. officials are tracking entire coast with one reported attack in florida and sightings as far north as massachusetts. alexis mcadams live on long island new york where police are investigating a possible shark bite. alexis. alex: alicia, that's right, just the other day nassau county tell us that a man was possibly bit by a shark. they say the bite was so bad it broke the man's leg and one fractured bone in his leg and ramping up patrols here as more people continue to flock to the beach. it's a beautiful day and more people hesitant on getting in the water but they are amping up patrols. this is what is happening out of the beach right now. you can see the helicopter
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flying over us. shows shark patrol members trying to combthe waters from above using the helicopters and drones as they look out for possible shark sightings, life guards have been on light foot even jet skis monitoring more than one hundred miles of long island beaches this coming as 10-foot shark was found washed a few miles away from here and holding a press conference in a short time. the 57-year-old man who did get possibly bit by a shark as they are still looking into it, this is the latest on that, listen. >> don't go in alone. go in with only a life guard, make sure that you know your surrounding circumstances, be aware, be aware of everything around you. it could be a wave, a rip tide or it could be animal.
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alex: now at the same time investigators say a man was possibly bit in long island. officials say a florida girl was attacked by a shark, 17-year-old bit by 9-foot shark. the animal clamped his jaws in the right thigh. >> she was trying to pull with bear hands. she has bite marks on her hands, poked it in the eye. i think she had to hit it 2 or 3 times and finally it took off. alex: so new york, florida and also cape cod where they've seen great white sharks, sharks rather showing up just in time for the busy tourist season and the sharks coming in as the waters warm up. overall according to international shark attack file out of florida, there were 73 unprovoked shark bites in 2021 but that's across the world and
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nine fatal bites. back in long island they are amping patrol and asking people to be vigilant and a lot of people, alicia, heading to the water and trying to enjoy the holiday weekend. alicia: be careful out there. alexis mcadams. rich. >> congress will have to act to codify to grow into federal law and as i said yesterday, the filibuster should not stand in the way of us being able to do that but right now we don't have the votes in the senate to change the filibuster at the moment. rich: that's president biden backing the senate vote to scrap filibuster. he admits he does not have the vote to do it. rekindling the fight and moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who oppose changing the rules. julie, thanks for joining us this weekend, i would like to
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start with the democrats' math, the reason that they are floating this, is this the say to voters in the midterms, we need two more senators to do this, so give us two more senators? >> i think there's no doubt that the democrats are looking to not just the overturning of roe as a way to energize the base but also the other supreme court decision that really hamper president biden's ability to pass his social agenda. we are looking at the defeats for the democrats on the environment, for example, the clean air act, supreme court decisions on gun which is the congress was able to cobble together a kind of answer to a response to to give democrats and people who favor gun restrictions some hope that there can be an end to the slaughter on the streets. but when it comes to the
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filibuster, i think a lot of democrats even though they don't say so, agree with senators manchin and synema that it is dangerous for democrats to waive the filibuster to say we don't need 60 votes to pass the legislation because come november the democrats may find themselves in the minority. they may be fazing a republican house or even a republican senate. so there's a lot of caution about what president biden has said. rich: even talking about this, does this open the door for republican senate to say, you were ready to do it and didn't have the votes, we can do this now if we do have the votes? >> rich that is exactly the concern. it's one thing now that when you have a democratic congress and quite another if you're facing a republican majority in the house, possibly in the senate
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and in 2024 possibly a republican president. the republicans will be able to undo not just the biden but the obama-biden agenda and that's what democrats like manchin and synema are worried about. others say this is a moment to be bold and this is a moment to be brave. we have to step up and pass the legislation that a majority of americans absolutely support on guns, on abortion, on cleaning the environment but i'm not sure that even president biden is willing to go there because he understands the consequences of this. rich: if democrats do hold the senate, do you think there's an argument that can be made even if they expand by one or two that in 2016 republicans told president biden, forget about your supreme court pick that this is the new reality, they've created this new standard whereby you have to control the white house and the senate to given get a justice on the
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supreme court so now they are going to in their view break norms, are we in a new reality here and do you think the argument could carry the day if we can get two more senators or when it comes to ending the filibuster that enough democrats will say, we can't do that? >> i think it's very hard to predict in this new environment what the senate will do but i think caution is really the watch word for a lot of these democrats. i mean, nobody knows what november will bring. right now we have seen the january 6th hearings which have given tremendous to democrats, everyone who watched the young woman who testified has to raise questions about not only president trump but the republicans who have stood by him as -- as liz cheney has pointed out, therefore, i think
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it's hard to predict but i think ultimately senator manchin and synema and that the democrats will be cautious rather than bold in this instance. if i had to bet, i bet that way but i wouldn't put a lot of money on it because nobody knows in this environment what's going to happen right now. rich: speaking of things that nobody knows looking ahead of elections, you had hutchins testimony and has it been electorally a good week for democrats in making their case and is it enough to override high gas prices and inflation and all the problems that the biden administration and the democrats are having as the party in power? >> well, that's exactly what the american people will decide in november. i mean, which of these issues is really going the take hold, what motivates people to go out and vote? the democrats have been very
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worried by the polls that show that their base has not really been energized and, therefore, the recent supreme court decision really play into their hands. the supreme court decision that is really do as you point out go against what a majority of the american people now want. it may be enough to get people out to vote. on the other hand, every time you fill up your gas tank, you to say who is responsible for this. is it putin, is it biden, the republicans also are doing everything they can to energize their base and it's unclear at this point who will be more successful in that effort but whoever does that will carry the day in november. rich: judy miller, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you. rich: alicia. alicia: rich the storms are starting to give way to some sunshine as temperatures heat up across the country. meteorologist adam klotz with the holiday forecast next.
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weathertech. alicia: apologizing for controversial statement posted on its website ahead of july 4th holiday. on friday the city wrote, quote, a lot of people probably don't want to celebrate our nation right now and we can't blame them when there is so much division, hate and unrest, why on earth would you want to have a party celebrating any of it. the message went onto say, quote, yes, america is in strife right now but you know what, we already bought the fireworks. the backlash cause swift, just one day later the city posted an apology saying, quote, we understand these words offended some of our residents which was not our intent. we take pride in celebrating fourth of july to express gratitude to those men and women and honor the country we live in.
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rich. rich: storms are moving out and temperatures are heating up as independence day celebrations are in full swing, some areas may still have to contend with extreme weather. fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is here with more. adam. adam: you said it, the heat getting going here and that eventually will fuel up big thunderstorms that you were talking about but already as we speak plenty of spots climbing up in the 80's and 90's, you see it across the southeast and coast where it's 92 degrees in raleigh. the heat will funnel to the north and that will fuel showers in northern plains stretching back to portions of montana where we are seeing best risk for severe weather over the course of today likely pretty big storms in the afternoon, the evening hours here on this sunday night. here is where we are looking at the showers. little bit of thunderstorm activity currently moving in montana that's only going to intensify and i take you to the east coast where we are still watching a line of showers that fortunately moved off the coast. if you're looking for a beach
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day across the area, the good news this is sweeping away. remember yesterday we were talking about tropical storm collin, this now moving off and no longer a tropical storm. so what once was tropical storm colin heading out to atlantic which is going to be clearing out for independence day forecast. a couple of stops where you will see rain tomorrow but otherwise warm temperatures across the southeast and midwest and you're seeing spots up to 98 degrees, 92 degrees, very warm in denver and up and down the east coast besides the southeast mostly sun shy, sunshine in the mid atlantic and sunshine stretching up to new england and also if the fireworks are holding off on monday night, summer over the weekend, but before the fourth of july weekend, you see less rain actually so the most rain across the upper midwest and portions of the plain fields but otherwise mostly clear conditions which means those fireworks are looking pretty good for millions and millions of folks, rich. rich: good stuff.
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fox weather meteorologist adam klotz. alicia. ♪ ♪ >> alicia: fox news celebrating a pivotal moment of the american revolution today, 249th anniversary of the boston tea party and abby live in boston where people are getting into the revolutionary spirit, hi, abby. >> hi, alicia. that is right. you know, we have been talking all weekend long about how important the city of boston is to our i dependence and part of that was the boston tea party. so we will take you back in time to december of 1773 to show you how important that moment was, take a look. we are at the museum where few yards away something significant
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happened. let's have a look around, shall we? ♪ ♪ >> you seem like the guy to talk to about the overall history and museum. what was the role of the boston tea party that eventually led to our independence? >> sure, we look at the boston tea party as the single most important event leading up to the revolution. it was the catalyst and propelled america down the road to revolution and led to the nation that we know today, punishment of boston and english's response to the tea's destruction that propelled to revolution. >> we are in abigael's tearooms. these were tea that is were destroyed during boston tea party. i'm glad that you saved some. >> there were 5 different types of teas destroyed. 3 black teas and two green teas. this one is the most expensive one in american colonies and
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favorite of george washington and thomas jefferson. let's go down and learn how it got here. >> the finale. ♪ ♪ >> we welcome you here aboard the beaver. i hope you are aware of knowing what lies aboard those vessels. ♪ ♪ >> now, of course, you can see there are pieces of cargo that we do have here, you have trunks, crates, barrels that you may know them as and right here we have one of our largest chess of tea on board. we have seen the cargo hold and since you neglect about the tea, i think you want to join us in throwing it overboard but do it. >> on the counts of three we will dump into the sea. ready? >> oh, yeah.
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>> one, two, three. >> of course. >> alicia, before i did that, i had no idea that the tea in the crates, was 300 pounds. it took them 3 hours. alicia: so many of fox have envious of your assignments, this one is way up there at the top. pretty awesome. thank you. you can celebrate america with us here on fox news channel all weekend long join pete hegseth, rachel campos duffy and will cain tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern for special independence day celebration at west point with fireworks and music from the west point band. then tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern fox news presents independence day special with
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>> learning how to fight fierce and couldn't come at a better time. climate change has been fueling mega fires and departments need all the help that they need. >> next generation of female firefighters here in california. 30 teenage girls have been getting hands on training learning life-saving techniques and how to fight fire. these are 3 of the girls in the program. >> i want to be the inspiration for the people that, you know, didn't have it like i did. >> the next generation that's coming around isn't just going to be male dominance, there's
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going to be women as well. >> you figure it out and you do the best you can. >> fire fighting field is made up exclusively men and almost 8% of america's firefighters are female. >> it can be done. >> 5-day training program is called camp and the trainers, they are all women as well. >> i love the phrase if you can see her, you can be her because you can see the female doing it. >> i thought, you know, this is something that i want to do, this is something that i can do and i'm here now doing it and that just makes it even better for me. >> 16-year-old dana jones says this path is personal. 5 years ago a wild fire burned down her home and fueled her passion to become a firefighter. >> i'm never letting that happen to anybody else. that is my worst fear being able
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to see someone and have to go through the pain of losing everything just like i did. >> after they complete the program, the girls can apply for scholarship to put towards their fire education. here in sack rento, california, giovani, fox news. >> it's becoming a popular adventure for those who can afford the 6-figure ticket, for the rest of us we can knock off a few zeros by opting for a zero-gravity flight. phil keating from somewhere in the gulf of mexico. >> 727, zero gravity come true. this is kristina and thomas having the fun of their life 30,000 feet above the gulf of mexico. >> amazing feeling when you feel your body start lifting in the air. >> inside the plane it's entirely padded for the
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uncontrolled people floating, spinning and bouncing around into each other and everything else. >> the great thing about zero g, you don't have to be a nasa astronaut to enjoy it. phil: enjoying we did. the way it works the plane does -- a deep plunge over and over again. unlike flying space origin or virgin galactic which cost half a million dollars, one astronaut made $55 million each to spend ten days at the space station, the zero g costs far less, $8,000. for future astronauts -- you will do it again. >> yes, definitely. a million times more. >> the majority of zero g flights are actually -- the rest
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of the flights are like this one, astronaut wannab-be thrill seekers and a thrill ride it definitely is. floating over the gulf of mexico, phil keating, fox news. alicia: zero gravity totally worth the price of admission. as we celebrate our nation's independence we also honor braver men and women who have fought and continue to fight for our country. next, how one nonprofit is working to ensure our veterans get the help and care they need. ♪ ♪ ♪ clinically proven to give strongest hold, plus seals out 5x more food particles. fear no food. new poligrip power hold and seal.
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alicia: as we get ready to celebrate our nation's birthday, we pause for a moment to salute the brave men and women who serve in our military. our next guest goes above and beyond to help them. he's the executive director of mission role call, an organization that gives organizations voice and cope with civilian life from health care to suicide prevention and more, cole, thank you so much for being here today. i read that only about half of veterans are affiliated with the veterans administration or any veteran service organization at all. that is striking. and now you have your organization to step in. can you explain to us what is it exactly that you do. >> yeah, alicia, thank you so much for having me on. there are 18.2 million veterans
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in the united states and you're correct, only half of them are affiliated with the va or vso, so mission roll call is a nonprofit that's design today pull veterans where they live online and your viewers can go to missionrollcall.org and we poll them to give them a direct voice in issues under consideration that may affect them and ultimately help improve their quality of life, increase their access to health care and benefits and hopefully have less veterans take their lives. alicia: when you're talking to them and going around the country and having these conversations, what are some of the top issues, the top concerns they have in their own lives? >> well, it can be any number of things. every veteran is different, every veteran has a unique story, access to healthcare is a huge thing of veterans that return from 20 years of warfare
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in iraq and afghanistan. it can be financial issues, it can be relationship issues. suicide preventions which is our number one priority, there's really no one thing that tends to cause veterans to make that irreversible decision. it usually is a conglomeration of things. when we talk to policymakers on capitol hill, at the va, we really try to, you know, convey that they need to take a more holistic approach to -- to suicide prevention. it's not just mental health approach and we need to capture those veterans that may or may not be struggling before they get to that point. alicia: and we do have some numbers here that we can put up. this is the report, va2021 report on veteran suicide and it's on the rise. 2001 on average per day you had 16.4 veterans taking their own lives. in 2019 it had climbed to 17.2.
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why do you believe that is? >> well, you know, first of all, i don't necessarily think that the statistics that the va put out there are a lot of collection issues, states not uniformly reporting death data. so the statistic itself may be wrong and tragically i think it's higher than that. but i think it's because from a governmental perspective we tend to look at suicide as a mental health issue and i recently wrote an op--ed in the washington examiner why this is incorrect and why we should take a more holistic look at it but, yes, mental health diagnosis makes you more prodisposed to have other issues and go down that path, at the moment of decision as i mentioned it can be financial stress or relationship stress or anything and the va's approach is kind of reactionary in that, you know, they want to take care of you when you're already having those mental health issues and, again,
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we want to catch them before they even get close to that point, so that's why we advocate for improving quality of life in all different areas and recently the va put out about $174 million to community organizations that may or may not be veteran focused but certainly serve veterans and some of those holistic areas and i think that's the right approach. >> and i saw that service dogs are critically important for veterans. can you explain that to some of our viewers out there? >> yeah, you know, i had a suicide attempt back in 2014 which was kind of launched me into veteran advocacy in the first place because i saw this need that the va wasn't funding service dogs so i offered a bill caused the paws act and worked with then congressman desantis to craft that piece of legislation. it ultimately passed last year but in my view service dogs can be very important because going back to that moment of decision that i was talking about, if a
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veteran is at that point, they usually feel hopeless, they feel completely alone, so if they have a gun in their mouth or something like that, they look at a dog and they say, well, the dog is going to miss me, i can't leave the dog and that's a very powerful thing and in my opinion works very well. i heard from veterans all over the country why -- why that's been such a boon for them in their personal journey. luckily the paws act signed last year and president biden signed it and we saw the va moving that direction and embrace that as well. alicia: that is amazing, cole lyle we thank you for your service and all that your organization mission roll call is doing on behalf of veterans, thank you so much. >> thank you, alicia. alicia: we will be right back. for strength and energy.
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rich: folks are heading under the sea to take part in new trend called mermaiding. >> get ready to take the plunge. as we deep dive into mermaiding, a growing trend making a big splash here in the united states and around the world with thousands of folks praising the idea that promotesinclusivity and inclusion. >> you can teach kids about water wave. >> back in the days mermaiding wasn't so accessible. the tails cost thousands of dollars and weighed close to 50 pounds. over time a wider selections of cheaper tails with lighter materials started flooding the
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markets helping mermaiding transforming to multimillion dollar industry. >> one thing that helps me being back, i tend to be relaxing when i do mermaiding. >> people can't seem to get enough with local groups of mer people working to spread their skills. >> have the opportunity to teach people how to do things safely and foundationally. >> seems purely fun, the unique activity is credible with some of the world's top scubadiving organizations offering official mermaiding courses. alicia: pete hegseth rachel campos duffy tonight at 10:00 eastern. tomorrow, independence day special with joey jones, lori jones, carley shimkus. they'll have fireworks from dc,
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boston and more and don't miss it and, rich, i just think we need to send phil keating out to try mermaiding. i feel like it's only fair because i'm not going to do it because i don't want anybody watching me on camera try to make -- >> rich: zero gravity mermaiding. alicia: i think he would be up for sure. absolutely. ♪ ♪ ♪ gillian: border officials are struggling with out of control migrant crisis this week 53 people died after being abandoned in a locked tractor trailer with no water, no air-conditioning, just outside of san antonio. the perpetrator suspected human smuggler, he's now in police custody. this fiscal year alone 518 migrant have died at the u.s.-southern border increasingly desperate people there are braving the blazing texas heat to cross into the u.s. that number by the way does not
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